The $444 million awarded to the Great Barrier Reef Foundation has been criticised as a politically calculated move. But governments have been asking what the reef can do for them ever since colonial times.

Oceanographers say they have the "credible new information" authorities need to resume the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.

Filipino artists painted an image of MH370 at a high school in the Philippines in 2014 to express solidarity and hope for the passengers and crew of the missing flight.
EPA/Amiel Meneses
January 18, 2017